Roget's Thesaurus

#828. Pain

Nouns

mental suffering, pain, dolor; suffering, sufferance; ache, smart etc. (physical pain) 378; passion. displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet; malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent etc. 832. dejection etc. 837; weariness etc. 841; anhedonia. annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre [Fr.]; mauvais quart d'heur [Fr.]. care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load. concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief. unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation; despair etc. 859; extremity, prostration, depth of misery. nightmare, ephialtes, incubus. pang, anguish, agony; torture, torment; purgatory etc. (hell) 982. hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of despond etc. (adversity) 735; peck of troubles; ills that flesh is heir to etc. (evil) 619 [Hamlet]; miseries of human life; unkindest cut of all [Julius Caesar]. sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb.

Verbs

feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain etc. n., smart, ache etc. (physical pain) 378; suffer, bleed, ail; be the victim of. labor under afflictions; bear the cross; quaff the bitter cup, have a bad time of it; fall on evil days etc. (adversity) 735; go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, sup full of horrors [Macbeth]. sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark. grieve; mourn etc. (lament) 839; yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way; despair etc. 859; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart etc. (inflict pain) 830.

Adjectives

in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain etc. n.; suffering etc. v.; pained, afflicted, worried, displeased etc. 830; aching, griped, sore etc. (physical pain) 378; on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard. uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed; discontented etc. 832; out of humor etc. 901a; weary etc. 841. heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used. unfortunate etc. (hapless) 735; to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey. unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone; cheerless etc. (dejected) 837; careworn. concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief etc. n.; in tears etc. (lamenting) 839; steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair etc. 859.

Phrases

the iron entered into our soul;" haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Lat.] [Vergil]; one's heart bleeding; down, thou climbing sorrow [Lear]; mirth cannot move a soul in agony [Love's Labor's Lost]; nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria [It.]; sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things [Tennyson]; the Niobe of Nations [Byron].